Hide and Seek The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command

Name: Hide and Seek The Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command
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ISBN: 9780762780396

ISBN-10: 0762780398

ISBN-13: 9780762780396

Edition: 2011

Authors: Stephen Walker

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Hide & Seekchronicles the intimate and intensely personal war between Nazi SS Obersturmbanführer for Rome, Herbert Kappler, and Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty of the Vatican, a fiercely fought rivalry that would culminate in failed attempts by Kappler to kidnap and then murder his Irish opponent. O'Flaherty had decided to quietly resist and fight the new rulers. Dubbed “Ireland's Oscar Schindler,” he masterminded a large-scale operation from within the Vatican, to help Jews and escaped Allied prisoners on the run from the Nazis. He used a series of safe houses and church buildings and sheltered around 500 Jews in the Holy See, and it is believed that sanctuary was found for some 4,000 Jews…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English